Microbes

How do bacteria reproduce?

• Meiosis

• Replication

• Host cell

• Binary Fission

How is an epidemic different from a pandemic?

• an epidemic occurs in a city, state, or country while a pandemic occurs across the globe

• an epidemic only involves fatal diseases while pandemics only involve non-fatal diseases

• an epidemic occurs across a continent or globe while a pandemic occurs in a city, state, or country

• an epidemic only involves non-fatal diseases while pandemics only involve fatal diseases

Antibiotics are used to treat which type(s) of pathogen?

• Viruses and bacteria

• Neither viruses or bacteria

• Viruses

• Bacteria

Which disease causing agents are non-living?

• Parasites

• Fungi

• Bacteria

• Viruses

Why are antibiotics ineffective against influenza?

• antibiotics boost the immune system, they do not kill microbes

• antibiotics are not strong enough to kill the flu

• antibiotics only work on bacteria, while the flu is a virus

• antibiotics work on some types of flu but not on others

All of the following EXCEPT which method can infectious diseases be passed?

• air

• insect bites

• food

• genetically from parents

Which is the best definition for pathogen?

• an organism that contains another organism on or in itself

• a disease that kills its host

• a type of microscopic organism that causes disease in its host

• a microscopic organism

What is the main difference between viruses and bacteria?

• viruses cause disease and bacteria do not

• viruses are living and bacteria are not

• bacteria are living and viruses are not

• bacteria cause disease and viruses do not

What are the three main methods of spreading disease?

• exposure, sterilization, consuming

• inhalation, ingestion, indirect contact

• ingestion, inhalation, exposure

• inhalation, ingestion, direct contact

Ten people became sick with the flu after attending a school dance. Which scenario would best explain how they got sick?

• contact with an infected person

• contact with a contaminated object

• contact with an infected animal

• contact with an environmental source